Word: extent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What, then, was the nature of the obligation?" a member of the Opposition asked. (And today asks the Viscount.) In answer Sir Edward said: "How far that entails an obligation, let every man look into his own heart and his own feelings and construe the extent of the obligation for himself," or as echoed by the present Lord Cushendun in 1928: "We are under no obligation and could if we liked alter our attitude. . . . But Britain is not likely to do this because it would be absolutely futile...
...reserve is to consist of some three billion dollars worth of public construction projects on paper. Getting the projects off paper, translating them at judicious moments into sweat-producing, belly-filling, back-covering jobs for labor, and into cash-registering orders for business will depend upon the extent to which federal, state and municipal legislative bodies and officers can be persuaded and helped to "cooperate" (Hoover's favorite word). Also, patience and discretion will be required in large quantities to discriminate between public works needed now, public works needed tomorrow, and public works which will never be needed...
...library of the Herbarium, augmented by gifts and purchases for many years, now contains more than 35,000 selected volumes and pamphlets. It also contains several bibliographical card catalogues of notable extent and scientific importance. Dr. Gray's collection of autograph letters of noted botanists, numbering more than 1100, and accompanied by portrait engravings and photographs, was given to the library by Mrs. Gray...
Whatever the reason for the "Decline in the Yale spirit" it might he just as well if the same decline would hit all of the colleges to a reasonable extent. This I suppose would sound sacrilegious to any old grad, but it would forestall the annual hullabaloo concerning overemphasis and the distortion of vales. Yale at the close of this season refrained from distorting a single value or tearing up a single goal post...
...homeland campaigning and by the alertness of the Brown Derby's ablest assistant, the New York World. Editorial Writer Walter Lippmann and Governor Smith managed to draw both the Messrs. Hughes and Borah into side-arguments and self-explanations. Mr. Hughes was nettled to such an extent that he talked about "mudslingers," wisecrack artists" and "calumny...